Hmph...
Nurses don't do the dirty work, they get techs and LPNs to do it.
As a firefighter of 11 years, I can tell you we don't get paid crap unless we're also an advanced life support provider (paramedic). Long crazy hours, away from home often, low pay (especially for the work being done!), the resentment by political administrations for what they perceive as "lazy people sitting around a firehouse all the time" while they're trying to get rid of us, sound familiar?
So after 11 years, I'm changing careers. Not by choice, but because some kid volunteer firefighters decided to do something incorrectly and I got hurt. It's not enough to keep me from doing most things out there, but I'm now unable to go back to the physically demanding work that I used to do.